On 09/09/2014 12:25 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Seems odd that with both the new and old glibc versions, > rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/sbin/ldconfig > says > glibc-2.17-55.el7.x86_64 > or > glibc-2.17-55.el7_0.1.x86_64 > yet yum doesn't think so. RPM has been able to handle symlinks for a long time: $ rpm -ql kdelibs | grep libkunittest.so.4.13.3 /usr/lib64/libkunittest.so.4.13.3 $ rpm -qf /lib64/libkunittest.so.4.13.3 kdelibs-4.13.3-1.fc20.x86_64 I presume that yum is querying RPM for information about installed packages, causing the installed version of glibc to "automagically" provide /usr/sbin/ldconfig. Let's test: # ln -s /usr/sbin /foo # rpm -qf /foo/ldconfig glibc-2.17-55.el7_0.1.x86_64 # yum provides /foo/ldconfig ... glibc-2.17-55.el7_0.1.x86_64 : The GNU libc libraries Repo : @updates Matched from: Filename : /foo/ldconfig So yum has (and uses) more information about installed packages. -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher arequipeno at gmail.com -------- "I grew up before Mark Zuckerberg invented friendship" -------- ========================================================================